A still frame from a security camera video shows the deer crashing through the front door of Hudson Coffee Traders on Wall Street in Kingston about 7 a.m. Tuesday.
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KINGSTON >> A young doe crashed through the glass front door at Hudson Coffee Traders, 288 Wall St., early Tuesday, halting business until after the animal could be removed by police, the owner of the Uptown shop said.

“It literally just came crashing through the front door this morning around 7 a.m.,” Donna Brooks said Tuesday afternoon. She said the business was open at the time and there were customers inside.

“No one was hurt, including the deer, who was taken out alive,” Brooks said. She said Kingston police were able to capture the deer, which had wandered to the back of the shop, and that the animal ultimately was released.

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Police Officer Michael Ryan said the doe suffered a small cut on her head. He said the animal had knocked over some items and gotten tangled in the furniture after entering the shop because she was not able to stand well on the marble floor.

At one point, the doe was in a small closet, but then she got spooked and came back out, Ryan said. He said he and two other officers managed to get a dog snare on the doe and remove her.

The officers put the doe in the back of a city Department of Public Works truck and took her to a nearby field, where she was released, Ryan said. He said she took off running.

Brooks said it was an “exciting morning” at her business. She said she had to close the shop for a time after the deer broke in but was able to reopen at around noon.

Employees of Rondout Glass came right over and fixed the door, Brooks said.

She said nothing like this had ever happened to her before and she couldn’t imagine why the deer was in the busy area of Wall Street.